5 UFC fighters who've had a forgettable 2019

#1 TJ Dillashaw

While the rest of the fighters on this list have had bad 2019s, none of them have had as horrible a year as TJ Dillashaw.

He started the year as the UFC Bantamweight Champion. He was facing UFC Flyweight Champion Henry Cejudo in a fight that had much more than a title on the line. Dillashaw had revealed that UFC had paid him more so that he would go to Flyweight Division and take on Cejudo to win the title.

He lost weight and looked extremely thin going into the fight. After so much effort and having talked so much trash about ending the Flyweight Division, he faced Cejudo at UFC Fight Night 143 and lasted only 32 seconds. The referee stopped the fight after he went down multiple times. He appealed the decision but it was done. All his effort had been for nothing.

While this is bad enough by itself, there was something even worse waiting for him.

On the 20th of March, he announced that he was relinquishing the Bantamweight Title after USADA and NYSAC found that he had tested positive for EPO use. He later acknowledged the fact that he had made mistakes and that he was sorry for the issues he had created.

Dillashaw is currently serving a two-year suspension. Given that he began the year with hopes of becoming a double champion, this might be the worst possible year of Dillashaw's career.

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